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National Indian Child Welfare Association
Description: Every Indian child must have access to community-based, culturally-appropriate services which help them grow up safe, healthy and spiritually strong – free from abuse, neglect, sexual exploitation and the damaging effects of substance abuse. The website discusses and expresses this philosophy.
Description: The website for the National Poverty Center provides information and data on poverty in the United States. Links to articles, research, and a description of how poverty is measured are included.
Description: The National Runaway Switchboard gives help and hope to youth and their families by providing non-judgmental, confidential crisis intervention and local and national referrals through a 24-hour hotline. Website can be viewed in Spanish, French and Chinese also.
U.S. Census Bureau: Current Poverty Data
Description: This is a website from the US Census Bureau that links to current statistics on poverty in the US.
U.S. Census Bureau: Current Poverty Data
Description: This is a website from the US Census Bureau that links to current statistics on poverty in the US.
– Evaluation –
Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Description: This is the website for the Buros Institute for Mental Measurement. Buros provides information to users of commercially published standardized tests, including the Mental Measurement Yearbook which provides reviews of these tests.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Academic And Functional Literacy Outcomes 
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Academic And Functional Literacy Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Conceptual Model For Children
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Contribution And Citizenship Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Physical Health Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Presence And Participation Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes – Children: Responsibility And Independence
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes– Children: Personal And Social Adjustment Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Evaluating the National Outcomes– Children: Satisfaction Outcomes
Description: Includes literature reviews, abstracts describing standardized instruments and measures.
Description: This publication focuses on promising practices and strategies for evaluating child services; from the Harvard Family Research Project ( available online and in print).
First Impressions Revisited: A program for Community Assessment and Improvement
Author: Lewis, Andrew (6 more by this author); James Schneider
Description: Website with resources for conducting and reporting a First Impressions community development assessment. This is a program in which volunteers from two somewhat similar communities (size, location, county seat, etc.) agree to do unannounced exchange visits and then report on their findings.
– General Information –
4-H National Headquarters Web Site
Description: This Web site has links to state 4-H Web sites and state specific information, as well as national 4-H information.
Description: A website that gives the latest national trends and research on indicators of child, youth, family, and community
well-being.
Community Needs Assessment Survey Guide
Author: Guy, Stan (1 more by this author)
Description: Local elected officials, appointed staff and volunteer leaders are continually involved with the challenge of identifying community needs in order to work together in solving community problems. One effective method for identifying important problems is conducting a community needs assessment survey. These pages describe one method of community surveys that provides rapid feedback to community leaders.
Author: Nordby, Ann (24 more by this author)
Description: This Technology trend explores the Obama administration's new policy of placing all government data online, with few exceptions. Researchers and government contract holders will have an easier time getting information on government spending, contract status, census data, health and safety information and much more as data.gov is rolled out over the next several years.
Economic Development Information System
Description: A website that includes links to county profiles, regional information, industry profiles, and state comparisons. Includes a lot of demographic data.
Economic Policy Institute - Economic Snapshots
Description: Updated weekly, EPI’s economic snapshots illustrate key economic trends or data from EPI’s current research.
Employment & Volunteer Opportunities for Seniors
Author: Lane, Rosalie
Description: A factsheet that provides an overview of the changing role of seniors in the workplace.
Everybody Wins: Involving Youth in Community Needs Assessment
Author: Israel, Glenn
Description: This article presents a strategy for integrating community service learning with community development. It builds upon two methods in rural development: needs assessment and incorporating public schools in the development process. The strategy provides a way to conduct a valid needs assessment using survey research methods, while keeping costs low and involvement of local people high. It also provides an opportunity for students to have classroom and experiential learning on community development and needs assessment
Federal Citizen Information Center
Description: A website with general consumer information about a variety of topics.
Foundation Readiness for Community Transformation: Learning in Real Time
Author: Brown, Prudence
Description: This article describes the internal structures and
processes adopted by The Skillman Foundation
to support the iterative practice of “learning and
doing” in the first phase of a rapidly evolving, ambitious community change enterprise in six Detroit
neighborhoods
Kindergarten Entry Skills (Habilidades para entrar en el kindergarten)
Description: This publication discusses the skills that are necessary for children entering kindergarten. Information is included on cognitive and social skills. Resources are provided. This publication is also available in Spanish as "Habilidades para entrar en el kindergarten" at http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/poptopics/k-entry-sp.html.
Latino Immigration and Community Development in Richmond, IN
Author: Jensen, Kumar
Description: A survey of Latino integration into the Richmond, IN community
More Poor Kids in More Poor Places: Children Increasingly Live Where Poverty Persists
Author: Mattingly, Marybeth; Kenneth M. Johnson; Andrew Schaefer
Description: A research brief from the Carsey Institute that overviews the persistence of poverty in rural America and the specific generational impact that this has on children across the United States.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Rural Development Issues in the Northeast: 2000 - 2005
Author: Goetz, Stephan
Description: This thought paper was designed to encourage discussion about issues related to rural development and community viability. While the paper focuses on trends and emerging issues in the twelve Northeastern states and the District of Columbia, some of the trends identified might be of interest to community leaders and policy makers in other rural regions of the country.
Description: Take Charge is a an interactive data base developed and supported by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development that provides leadership and community development relevant data at the county and city level.
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
Author: Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
Description: A discussion of and review of research findings about the immigrant labor force's - the skills they have to bring to the market; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on native-born workforce - role in today's U.S. economy.
– Professional Development –
Author: Family, Harvard (1 more by this author)
Description: 4-H Environmental Inquiry (4-H EI) was started in 2000 to assist Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) educators in playing a key role in science education reform in their communities. By providing opportunities for youth to engage in authentic, open-ended research Extension Educators are increasing their ability to think out side the box.
Standards for Educational Accountability Systems
Author: Baker, Eva; Daniel Koretz; Joan L. Herman; Robert L. Linn
Description: The Standards for Educational Accountability Systems is a collaborative project between CRESST and the Consortium for Policy Research in Education. The standards are intended to provide guidance to states and districts in conducting self-reviews of their own systems and to delineate criteria by which developing accountability systems can be judged.
The Promising Practices Network
Description: The Promising Practices Network web site highlights programs and practices that research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.
– Programming Resource –
4-H National Headquarters Web Site
Description: This Web site has links to state 4-H Web sites and state specific information, as well as national 4-H information.
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011
Description: America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011 is a compendium of indicators depicting our Nation's young people. The report, the 15th in an ongoing series, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from our most reliable statistics, are easily understood by broad audiences. This report compiles the most recent national figures about the 75 million youth between ages zero and 17 in the U.S in seven different domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
Description: This web site, with its tools and links to a wide range of economic development literatures, is designed to enable anyone interested in their local economy to use standard indicators to make a first cut at understanding its potential.
Downtown and Business District Market Analysis
Author: Ryan, Bill; Bill Pinkovitz; Todd Barman; Matt Kures
Description: This market analysis workbook is designed to help local business leaders, entrepreneurs, developers, and economic development professionals understand the changing marketplace and identify business and real estate development opportunities that are realistic and make sense for their communities. It will introduce and guide the user through many of the analytical techniques used in analyzing specific development opportunities for a downtown area.
Evaluation brief: Conducting an outcome evaluation
Description: This 11-page brief focuses on outcome evaluations, beginning with a discussion on using logic models and developing appropriate outcomes and indicators. Evaluation plans (data collection methods, etc.), analysis and interpretation, and reporting of results are also discussed to some extent.
Evaluation brief: What’s the difference? Understanding process and outcome evaluation.
Description: This is a 7-page brief which succinctly presents 6 basic steps for conducting evaluations, and then elucidates the differences between process and outcome evaluations, along with examples of evaluation designs.
Description: This publication focuses on promising practices and strategies for evaluating child services; from the Harvard Family Research Project ( available online and in print).
First Impressions Revisited: A program for Community Assessment and Improvement
Author: Lewis, Andrew (6 more by this author); James Schneider
Description: Website with resources for conducting and reporting a First Impressions community development assessment. This is a program in which volunteers from two somewhat similar communities (size, location, county seat, etc.) agree to do unannounced exchange visits and then report on their findings.
Description: A project from the New York Times that allows users to browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development. This is an interactive map that presents national and county data.
Partners in Community Leadership: Youth and Adults Working Together for Better Communities
Description: This is an educational program that provides opportunities for youth and adults to work together as partners in the process of decision-making for rural revitalization. The program is based on the premise that involving teenage youth in leadership experiences, and in decisions that affect them in their home communities, will help them develop a feeling of ownership for their community. The emphasis is on community development, youth leadership and adult-youth partnerships. This 10 module curriculum is available for purchase.
Poverty in America's Living Wage Calculator
Description: Created by the Poverty in America Project, the Living Wage Calculator is a tool that estimates the cost of living in a community or region. The Calculator lists typical expenses, the living wage and typical wages in the location you have selected.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Southern Rural Development Center
Description: The Southern Rural Development Center brings together the region's 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
Description: Southern Rural Development Center brings together the region's 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
To make data readily available to local leaders, agencies, and organizations, the SRDC created this Data Center to provide information on more than three dozen variables for every county in the region.
Author: Richardson, James; Jonathan London
Description: This article describes the transformation of the National Rural Funders Collaborative (NRFC), a ten-year rural funding initiative to reduce rural poverty, from an initiative focused on increasing wealth, family self-sufficiency, and civic participation as necessary strategies for overcoming poverty to an initiative that understands the insufficiency of these strategies alone, without also addressing race, class, and power as structural and historical conditions that must be mitigated, if not eventually eliminated.
The Promising Practices Network
Description: The Promising Practices Network web site highlights programs and practices that research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.
– Research –
Author: Nordby, Ann (24 more by this author); Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Description: This research spotlight focuses on why issues of immigration and education. "Immigration is the face of globalization", according to researcher and author Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, and significant percentages of immigrants to the US and most other first-world countries are failing to get an adequate education to enter the workforce. Many are instead being incarcerated. Why is education failing so many? That should be the question we are all asking, Suarez-Orozco says.
National Center for Early Development and Learning
Description: This website provides information on research relating to children's development from birth through age eight. This project ran from 2001 to 2005. Resources are available on their website. This is a project of the University of North Carolina, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.
The Promising Practices Network
Description: The Promising Practices Network web site highlights programs and practices that research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. The information offered is organized around three major areas: Proven and Promising Programs, Research in Brief, and Strengthening Service Delivery.
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
Author: Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
Description: A discussion of and review of research findings about the immigrant labor force's - the skills they have to bring to the market; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on native-born workforce - role in today's U.S. economy.